Word: trovato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, in the same pine-bedecked Armory, more than 300 of the original 1,300 paintings and sculptures that made their formidable debut 50 years ago will be on view again. Joseph S. Trovato, assistant to the director of Utica's Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, got the idea of reassembling as much of the show as possible back in 1956. It was a big job. Though the original show was probably the most famous U.S. art exhibition of all time, the 1913 catalogue was a masterpiece of vagueness; the paintings and sculptures have been sold and resold, titles...
...would never send a telegram of this sort to the Secretary of State." Just as curious as the episode itself was the editorial applause given to the fraud by the New York Times. Wrote the Times: "The Italians have a saying, 'Se non e vero, e ben trovato,' which roughly translated means: 'Even if it wasn't true, it was a good idea...